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TIL People with Cystic Fibrosis are extremely dangerous to eachother

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Abm7 TIL Heroin is a brand name and the drug was originally marketed by Bayer as a non-addictive cough medicine.
mdoR TIL in 1961 the US accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a small town in North Carolina. It was 1 low voltage switch away from actually detonating.
M7Ko8 TIL Millions of Americans now entering midlife and old age were exposed to high levels of lead, a neurotoxin, as children.
VMvb8 TIL about the Bouba-Kiki effect, which is a universal, inherent and nonarbitrary bias found in most adults to ascribe visual shapes to speech sounds.
kDPe TIL the German word, backpfeifengesicht, that roughly translates into meaning “A face that needs to be slapped (or punched).